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The good news: TLS 1.3 is available, and the protocol, which powers HTTPS and many other encrypted communications, is better and more secure than its predecessors (including SSL). The bad news: Thanks to a financial industry group called BITS, there’s a look-alike protocol brewing called ETS (or...

EFF is proud to be a part of the Open Source community at LinuxFest Northwest this year for its 20th Anniversary in Bellingham, WA. LinuxFest Northwest is a free community event for people of all technical skill levels. Stop by our table in the expo hall to talk about digital...

We're happy to be returning to the 17th Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), where you can find the EFF table in the expo hall all weekend. We're offering member special rates and unique EFF shwag for donation. Come say hi! More information about SCALe here: SCaLE 17X – the 17th...

It’s time for governments to confront the harmful consequences of using facial recognition technology as an instrument of surveillance. Yet law enforcement agencies across the country are purchasing face surveillance technology with insufficient oversight—despite the many ways it harms privacy and free speech and exacerbates racial injustice. EFF...

EFF has just filed an amicus brief in support of Google’s petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the long-running case of Oracle v. Google. The case asks whether functional aspects of computer programs are copyrightable, and...

Article 13 is the on-again/off-again controversial proposal to make virtually every online community, service, and platform legally liable for any infringing material posted by their users, even very briefly, even if there was no conceivable way for the online service provider to know that a copyright infringement had...

Great news out of Washington state: a federal judge has ruled that the First Amendment protects speech on the Internet, even from anonymous speakers, and even if it’s embarrassing. EFF has been fighting this statute for a longtime. It’s a prime example of how sloppy...

Law enforcement access to data is in the middle of a profound shake-upacross the globe. States are pushing to get quicker, deeper, and more invasive access to personal data stored on the global Internet, and are looking to water down the international safeguards around privacy and due...

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Special Consultant / author Cory Doctorow, will join Electronic Frontier Alliance group EFF-Austin at their annual SXSW informal shindig. This year they're throwing a house party and all the cyberpunks are invited! Come join the...

We are in the midst of an historic expansion of internet domain names with more than 1200 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) now competing with <.com>. Accompanying these new gTLDs are new mechanisms for enforcing trademark, copyright, and other regimes that profoundly affect freedom of expression. These mechanisms are little...

A new field is emerging—a community of people using their skills in technology to change the world for the better—the professional field of public interest technology. Join an inspiring track at RSA on Thursday, March 7, with cybersecurity expert and EFF Board Member Bruce Schneier, EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn...